Mixing smoking, vaping can be as harmful as smoking cigarettes

New York, Jan 4 : If you are planning to quit smoking, then picking up vaping to reduce the frequency can be a bad idea, researchers say.
According to the researchers, combining traditional cigarettes with e-cigarettes may result in harmful health effects similar to smoking cigarettes exclusively.
“Some people who smoke cigarettes, pick up e-cigarette use to reduce the frequency with which they smoke cigarettes. They often become dual users of both products rather than switching entirely from one to the other,” said Andrew C. Stokes, Assistant Professor at Boston University School in the US.
“If e-cigarettes are used as a means to quit smoking, cigarette smoking should be completely replaced and a plan to ultimately attain freedom from all tobacco products should be advised,” Stokes added.
The study suggests that the participants who used both cigarettes and e-cigarettes had levels of all inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers comparable to those who smoked exclusively.
For the study, published in the American Heart Association’s flagship journal Circulation, researchers studied the association of cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use with inflammation and oxidative stress as biomarkers in more than 7,100 US adults.